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Trump Education Pick, Betsy DeVos, Grilled In Brutal Confirmation Hearing... Waffles On Privatization... And On Guns In Schools... Cites Protection From 'Potential Grizzlies'... Admits 'Access Hollywood' Tape Described Sexual Assault... Bernie Asks: Would You Be Here 'If You Were Not A Multibillionaire'?... Warren: 'I Don't See How You Can Be Secretary Of Education'...

Brave New Films Video: Protect Public Education by Stopping Betsy DeVos From Becoming Next U.S. Secretary of Education
AlterNet | Robert Greenwald / Brave New Films | 01/17/17

Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos for education secretary is a threat to public education. DeVos has spent millions funding the privatization of education in Michigan. The result? A failing school system where almost 80 percent of schools are run by private, for-profit companies.

The charter schools in Michigan, influenced by DeVos's agenda, perform lower than national averages, have been criticized for misuse of taxpayer funding, and frequently shut down doors without warning or community input. Adding to the alarm is the fact that DeVos has never held a professional position in education in her life, but plans to lead the Department of Education, where she would be in charge of overseeing and providing equal access to quality education for all Americans. ... Read more
Brave New Films | Protect Public Education - Stop Betsy DeVos! (01/14/17) [8:15]

Aljazeera | Obama commutes Chelsea Manning's prison sentence (01/17/17) [2:54]
Betting Website Gives Trump 4-1 Odds of Being Impeached Within Six Months.
Meet Donald Trump's emissary to the superrich: Anthony Scaramucci tells the Davos elite his boss is on their side
Loose-talking zillionaire known as "the Mooch" has a message for Davos: Only Trump can save global capitalism.

Meet Donald Trump's emissary to the superrich: Anthony Scaramucci tells the Davos elite his boss is on their side
Salon | Heather Digby Parton | 01/18/17

A long time ago in an alternate universe far, far away, I wrote a Salon column about how the Republican Party was in trouble because rich gadflies had decided to get personally involved in electoral strategy and that could only spell their doom. These were foolish wealthy donors for the most part, people who believed the size of their bank accounts meant they were renaissance geniuses who can do anything.

... His name is Anthony "the Mooch" Scaramucci, and he could be a character out of an Elmore Leonard novel. In fact, in my 2014 article I wrote, "the man's hijinks make Donald Trump look like a prince by comparison." (I didn't know the extent of Trump's high jinks at the time.) Scaramucci has a big mouth and a big wallet and he has been ostentatiously rubbing elbows with the political elite for quite some time. ... Read more

*FOUR HORSEMEN is an independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works. [1:38:54]
Four Horsemen is a 2012 British documentary directed by Ross Ashcroft. The documentary points out the faults and consequences of our fractional reserve banking system, debt-based economy and political lobbying by banks, which shows this system to be a serious threat to Western civilization. It also points out concerns about the War on Terror, which claims is not fought to spread democracy, but to create larger debts to the banks.

Among those interviewed are Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist at the World Bank, Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor, John Perkins, author and former economic hitman, Herman Daly, economy professor and Max Keiser, TV host and former trader
Democracy Now! U.S. and World News Headlines for Wednesday, January 18 [13:38]
DN | Jeremy Scahill on Obama's Commutation of Chelsea Manning & Continued Demonization of Edward Snowden (01/18/17) [10:11]
DN | Jeremy Scahill: Did Education Nominee Betsy DeVos Lie to Senate About Ties to Anti-LGBT Foundation? (01/18/17) [12:54]
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah | Barack Obama Spending Last Days Baby-Proofing America (01/18/17) [5:25]
TRNN | Nationwide Protests to Oppose Trump and Disrupt his Inauguration (01/17/17) [4:22]
TRNN | President Obama Commutes Sentences of Chelsea Manning and Oscar Lopez River (01/17/17) [17:52]
TYT | Proof Millennials Have It Worse Than Their Parents (01/17/17) [7:52]
TYT | Trump To End Net Neutrality? (01/17/17) [6:26]
TYT | Trump Still Making Personal Business Deals Despite Conflict Of Interest (01/17/17) [12:02]
TYT | Why Trump Wants To Lift Sanctions On Russia (01/17/17) [5:14]
TYT | Scalpers Losing Money On Trump Inauguration (01/17/17) [5:31]
RT | CrossTalk: Trump appears to be determined to recast key pillars of American foreign policy. It won't be easy and certainly not without a fight. (01/18/17) [24:30]
RT | Keiser Report: Health Care Plan for Trump Voters (E1020) (01/17/17) [25:44]
Max and Stacy discuss the health care plan that Trump voters really want... and it's not the one the Republicans in Congress plan on delivering. In the second half, Max interviews Obi Egbuna, the first US Correspondent to the Herald - Zimbabwe's National Newspaper - and Co- Executive Producer of the BattleCry For Cuba and Zimbabwe. They discuss the embargo on Cuba and the sanctions on Zimbabwe and why he's calling for a complete end to them.
Thom Hartmann - www.thomhartmann.com/
NPR (National Public Radio) - www.npr.org/
PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) - pbs.org/
MSNBC - Maddow/Hayes - www.msnbc.com/
Real Stories | Pakistan's Hidden Shame (01/10/17) [46:55]
Other Videos and Documentaries I Ran Across
HC | How Nuclear Weapon can Destroy the world in a moment () [44:31]
Most people in India and in Pakistan (and in the U.S.) probably do not know that as many as 9 out of 10 people -- or more -- who die from a nuclear blast, do not die in the explosion itself. Most people probably think that if they die from a nuclear blast, they will simply see a flash and get quickly cooked.

Those within approximately a six square mile area (for a 1 megaton blast) will indeed be close enough to "ground zero" to be killed by the gamma rays emitting from the blast itself. Ghostly shadows of these people will be formed on any concrete or stone that lies behind them, and they will be no more. They literally won't know what hit them, since they will be vaporized before the electrical signals from their sense organs can reach their brains.

Of the many victims of a nuclear war, these are the luckiest ones, of course. Outside the circle where people will be instantly vaporized from the initial gamma radiation blast, the light from the explosion (which is many times hotter than the sun) is so bright that it will immediately and permanently blind every living thing, including farm animals (including cows, sacred or otherwise), pets, birds while in flight and not to mention peasants, Maharajah's, and Government officials -- and soldiers, of course. Whether their eyes are opened or closed. This will happen for perhaps 10 miles around in every direction (for a 1 megaton bomb) -- further for those who happen to be looking towards the blast at the moment of detonation. Even from fifty miles away, a 1 megaton blast will be many times brighter than the noonday sun. Those looking directly at the blast will have a large spot permanently burned into their retinas, where the light receptor cells will have been destroyed. The huge bright cloud being nearly instantly formed in front of them (made in part from those closer to the blast, who have already "become death"), will be the last clear image these people will see.

Most people who will die from the nuclear explosion will not die in the initial gamma ray burst, nor in the multi-spectral heat blast (mostly X-ray and ultraviolet wavelengths) which will come about a tenth of a second after the gamma burst. Nor will the pressure wave which follows over the next few seconds do most of them in, though it will cause bleeding from every orifice. Nor even will most people be killed by the momentary high winds which accompany the pressure wave. These winds will reach velocities of hundreds of miles an hour near the epicenter of the blast, and will reach velocities of 70 miles per hour as far as 6 miles from the blast (for a 1 megaton bomb). The high winds and flying debris will cause shrapnel-type wounds and blunt-trauma injuries.

Together, the pressure wave and the accompanying winds will do in quite a few, and damage most of the rest of the people (and animals, and structures) in a huge circle -- perhaps hundreds of square miles in area.

Later, these people will begin to suffer from vomiting, skin rashes, and an intense unquenchable thirst as their hair falls out in clumps. Their skin will begin to peel off. This is because the internal molecular structure of the living cells within their bodies is breaking down, a result of the disruptive effects of the high radiation dose they received. All the animals will be similarly suffering. Since they have already received the dose, these effects will show up even if the people are immediately evacuated from the area hardly likely, since everything around will be destroyed and the country would be at war.

But this will not concern them at this time: Their immediate threat after the gamma blast, heat blast, pressure wave and sudden fierce wind (first going in the direction of the pressure wave -- outwardly from the blast -- then a moment later, a somewhat weaker wind in the opposite direction), will be the firestorm which will quickly follow, with its intense heat and hurricane-force winds, all driving towards the center where the radioactive mushroom-shaped cloud will be rising, feeding it, enlarging it, and pushing it miles up into the sky.
MF | Nuclear War : What It Would Look Like () [36:16]
Nuclear warfare (sometimes atomic warfare or thermonuclear warfare) is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is used to inflict damage on the enemy. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can be vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage, and in a much shorter time. A major nuclear exchange would have long-term effects, primarily from the fallout released, and could also lead to a "nuclear winter" that could last for decades, centuries, or even millennia after the initial attack. Some analysts claim that with this potential nuclear winter side-effect of a nuclear war almost every human on Earth could starve to death. Other analysts, who dismiss the nuclear winter hypothesis, calculate that with nuclear weapon stockpiles at Cold War highs, in a surprise countervalue global nuclear war, billions of casualties would have resulted but billions of people would nevertheless have survived.
The Road to World War 3 () [1:04:26]
It's 1-minute until midnight. Thermonuclear war with Russia has never been closer. But, how did we get here? This documentary highlights the geopolitical game of chess that's been happening over the past 24 months between, primarily, the United States & Russia.

@00:00 - Part 1 - September 2014 - The Geopolitics of World War III
@19:52 - Part 2 - December 2014 - The Calm Before The Storm
@22:55 - Part 3 - September 2015 - Who Will Be Blamed?
@39:32 - Part 4 - October 2015 - Syria, Russia & Iran
@44:54 - Part 5 - Janurary 2016 - The New Axis of Evil
@54:44 - Part 6 - October 2016 - Drums of War Intensify
Note: The Middle East is such a complex issue, I don't pretent to know what all the factors are behind the termoil. I only try to look-at [present] videos [documentaries] that show a logical progression [timeline] of what has happened in the area since 2003.
We Have Been FOOLED, There Is No Civil War In Syria. The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction () [54:21]

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AI - Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Deep Learning
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Quantum mechanics | AI - Artificial Intelligence
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Economy, Wall Street and Banksters

Wall Street and Banksters

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Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

Intelligence Agencies/Deep State?

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Daniel Ellsberg | Pentagon Papers
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Daniel Ellsberg and Paul Jay explore Ellsberg's latest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. In the introduction to the book, Ellsberg writes: "No policies in human history have more deserved to be recognized as immoral or insane. The story of how this calamitous predicament came about and how and why it has persisted over a half a century is a chronicle of human madness".

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Nukes
Nukes

Nuclear weapons have come a long way and come in all types of different sizes. Some are relatively small while others are enormous, so big they boggle the mind at what they can be capable of, i.e. the Soviet 'Tsar Bomba' is/was 3,000 times greater than the Hiroshima bomb.

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Rana Foroohar and Fall of American Business
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Ms. Foroohar says financialization delivers stagnant wages, inequality and economic crisis; the Financial Times columnist and author of "Makers and Takers" says the financial sector represents only 7 percent of the U.S. economy, but takes around 25 percent of all corporate profit while creating only 4 percent of all jobs.

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The Untold History of the United States by Oliver Stone & Petere Kuznick

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Kuznick Interviews

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China Valley of Tunnels

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911
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The Vietnam War

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Trump's Mashups
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Trump's Sexcapades
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Cathy Heller (1997)
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Karena Virginia (1998)
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Trump's Speeches | Rallys |Interviews
Trump's Speeches | Rallys

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